Mukti Ranjan Ray, the main suspect in the brutal murder of Mahalakshmi in Bengaluru, reportedly committed suicide in Odisha. He had strangled and dism

BHUBANESWAR: The prime accused of the sensational Mahalakshmi murder case had reportedly confessed to his crime before his mother, hours before allegedly taking his own life near his house at Dhusuri in Bhadrak district,

A day earlier, the suspected killer, Mukti Ranjan Ray, had fatally attacked Mahalakshmi, who is of Nepalese-origin, at her home in Vyalikaval. After the murder, Ray bought the knife from the shop and used it to dismember the body, police said.

Accused’s family members have said that the woman used to extort money and other valuables from him while physically abusing him

Before committing suicide, the accused identified as Mukti Ranjan Ray told his family about the crime and allegedly claimed that Mahalakshmi and her brothers used to thrash him and extort money from h

A soured relationship was the most likely motive behind the brutal murder of 29-year-old Nepalese-origin woman Mahalakshmi in Bengaluru earlier this month, according to police sources. Malakshmi’s mutilated body parts were found stuffed inside a single-door fridge in her Vyalikaval home on1.

After realising that Mahalakshmi had died, he initially tried to hang her to pass her death as a suicide but later decided to chop her body into pieces

The woman’s body was chopped into pieces and stuffed in a fridge on September 21, while the man was found dead near Bhuinpur village in Odisha’s Bhadrak district on Wednesday morning.

The man suspected of killing a woman in Bengaluru whose body was cut into pieces and stored in a fridge of her house was found dead in Odisha, police said on Thursday. A sucide note was found beside the body of the accused Mukti Ranjan Roy.